Snails, in spite of their attractive appearance, are able to bring a lot of trouble to the owners of garden plots. They eat edible for them vegetation, which comes across on the way, and also are carriers of worms and tapeworms. Therefore, for gardeners who are faced with their invasion, the question becomes urgent: how to deal with garden snails?
How to deal with snails in the country?
The wet and dark environment is ideal for snail dwellings. Therefore, they carry out their activities at night or in rainy weather. In the afternoon you will be able to evaluate the results of their work, which are expressed in the presence of holes on the leaves of plants.
Combating snails is carried out by people's means. If they do not help, then, as an extreme measure, apply chemistry. In this case, the treatment is carried out point-by-point, in places of large concentrations of snails.
The most famous folk remedies for fighting snails in the country are:
- The use of animals for which snails are a source of food. For example, they include hedgehogs, toads and frogs.
- Collection of snails by hand - used when they appear in small quantities.
- Catch with traps. To do this, in the cool and humid places in the garden lay old bags or rags, which are damp in beer or fruit juice. These shelters will become a shelter for snails on a hot day, and you can easily assemble them.
- An effective method will be scattered on the territory where snails, broken shells, eggshells , small gravel live. Because the body of snails is very tender, this will create an obstacle to their movement.
- Disintegration of lime or superphosphate, which will absorb the slime from the surface of the snail's body and thereby prevent its movement.
- Burying of containers with water level with the ground. This will serve as a trap for snails.
- Planting of plants that scare off pests - garlic, sage, rosemary , parsley.
- The most common method is the use of salt against snails. It is scattered in places of mass accumulation of pests or sprayed plants with saline solution.
But it should be borne in mind that in some cultures salt can cause drying or discoloration of the leaves. - Spraying plants with a weak coffee solution.
Also effective in the fight against snails are infusions, which include mustard, citric acid, bitter pepper.
In the event that traditional methods do not help, use chemical means. The most popular of them are "Meta" and "Groza". The integrated application of various methods of combating snails will help you cope with pests.